We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …

Current research, especially after the financial crisis, highlights different key determinants of high risk bank … profiles. The main aim of this paper is to test, through an empirical model, the impact of various determinants of bank … business models on the bank risk with the purpose of enabling early identification of signals of risk and timely application of …

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that …